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Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- William Cohan, author of "House of Cards" and a Bloomberg Television contributing editor, talks with Erik Schatzker about the search for a chief executive officer for Bank of America Corp., the performance of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and the risk strategy of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (This is an excerpt of the full interview. Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Jon Erlichman reports on how some hedge funds are profiting from buying home loans at a discount. The funds reduce the size of the mortgages and make them qualify for government guarantee. These loans are then sold to federal agencies, which then package them into securities that are sold to investors. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The ex-Pequot Capital Management Inc. employee now at the center of a U.S. insider-trading probe told his therapist that the hedge-fund firm fired him in 2001 after he stopped delivering secret information on Microsoft Corp., the psychologist said in a deposition. Bloomberg's Jesse Westbrook reports. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Douglas Burns, a former federal prosecutor, talks with Bloomberg's Lori Rothman and Mark Crumpton about the U.S. crackdown on secret offshore bank accounts. More than 14,700 Americans voluntarily disclosed accounts to the Internal Revenue Service under a leniency program. Burns also discusses the U.S.'s creation of an interagency financial fraud enforcement task force. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Seventeen Rolexes, including an Oyster chronograph watch, fur coats and designer handbags are among the 150 to 200 lots up for auction that once belonged to Bernard and Ruth Madoff. The items will be auctioned tomorrow at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers to benefit victims of his $65 billion Ponzi scheme. Bloomberg's Gigi Stone reports. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Serphaine Stimpson, a juror in the fraud trial of former Bear Stearns Cos. hedge fund managers Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, said after their acquittal that the government did not provide enough evidence to convict the defendants. The panel of eight women and four men who spent the past month hearing testimony in the case took only nine hours to find them not guilty on all six counts. Bloomberg's Scarlet Fu reports. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Carol Massar, Su Keenan and Matt Miller report on the acquittal of former Bear Stearns Cos. hedge-fund managers Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin. A jury of eight women and four men deliberated less than a day before reaching the verdict. Cioffi and Tannin were accused of misleading investors who lost $1.6 billion. The trial was the first stemming from a federal probe into the collapse of the subprime mortgage-market, which cost investors as much as $396 billion and helped trigger a worldwide recession. Dennis Gartman, economist and editor of the Gartman Letter and Bloomberg contributor William Cohan also speak. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Whitney Tilson, founder of T2 Partners LLC, talks with Bloomberg Television about the aquittal of former Bear Stearns Cos. hedge-fund managers Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin. (This report is and excerpt from the full interview Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Dennis Gartman, economist and editor of the Gartman Letter, talks with Bloomberg Television about the acquittal of former Bear Stearns Cos. hedge-fund managers Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin of charges they misled investors who lost $1.6 billion. (This report is an excerpt of the full interview. Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Sara Eisen reports on currency hedge strategy to help soften the blow of natural disasters, war or other potentially catastrophic geopolitical events. Barclays Plc has designed currency investment guidelines to follow under various scenarios. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Orin Kramer, general partner of the hedge fund Boston Provident Partners LP and chairman of New Jersey’s Investment Council, talks with Bloomberg's Peter Cook about the outlook for an overhaul of U.S. financial regulation, the performance of President Obama and the likely career path of New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine after he leaves office early next year. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. prosecutors charged 14 people, including hedge fund managers, lawyers and an ex-Galleon Group employee, for using the methods of “drug dealers” and “common criminals” to profit on insider data from deals involving firms such as 3Com Corp. and Alliance Data Systems Corp. Bloomberg's Monica Bertran reports. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Bill Singer, a partner at Stark & Stark, talks with Bloomberg's Erik Schatzker about the outlook for the fraud trial of former Bear Stearns Cos. hedge-fund managers Matthew Tannin and Ralph Cioffi. Jurors in Brooklyn, New York, will hear closing arguments in the case starting today. Cioffi and Tannin are accused of misleading investors about the health of two funds, which cost investors $1.6 billion when they collapsed in 2007. Bloomberg's Dan Colarusso also speaks. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) -- FBI agents arrested 14 people as part of an ongoing insider trading investigation, including a former worker at the offices of the Galleon Group hedge fund firm, the center of an alleged $20 million scheme. Bloomberg's Scarlet Fu reports. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Thomas Newkirk, a partner at Jenner & Block LLP, talks with Bloomberg's Carol Massar, Adam Johnson, Scarlet Fu and Jon Erlichman about the Federal Bureau of Investigation's arrest of 14 people, including a former employee at the office of the Galleon Group hedge fund firm, as part of an investigation of an alleged $20 million insider-trading scheme. Charges against the men include conspiracy and fraud, according to documents filed in New York federal court. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) -- John Fahy, partner at Fahy Choi LLC, and Thomas Newkirk, a partner at Jenner & Block LLP, talk with Bloomberg's Mark Crumpton about federal charges against 14 people, including hedge fund managers and an ex-employee of Galleon Group, as part of a probe of an alleged insider trading scheme totaling $40 million. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Frank Razzano, a partner at Pepper Hamilton LLC, talks with Bloomberg's Matt Miller and Carol Massar about charges against 14 people in an alleged insider trading scheme tied to Galleon Group. Zvi Goffer, a former Galleon employee, and Craig Drimal, who worked at the Manhattan firm's offices, were arrested today, the FBI said. Goffer, the alleged ringleader of the scheme and founder of Incremental Capital LLC, paid his tipsters for information on mergers and acquisitions, and gave them pre-paid mobile phones to avoid detection, the government said. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Paul Schott Stevens, president of the Investment Company Institute, talks with Bloomberg's Peter Cook about a Supreme Court case over investors' ability to sue mutual fund managers over fees. The case involves Harris Associates LP's Oakmark mutual funds. Investment Company Institute is the mutual-fund industry's trade association.(Source: Bloomberg)

Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Raj Rajaratnam, the Galleon Group hedge fund founder accused of directing an elaborate insider-trading ring, told a judge he’s being treated worse than Bernard Madoff and asked that his bail be cut to $25 million. Rajaratnam, 52, requested in a letter yesterday that his $100 million bond be reduced. Bloomberg's Monica Bertran reports. (Source: Bloomberg)

Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Raj Rajaratnam, the Galleon Group hedge fund founder accused of directing an elaborate insider-trading ring, told a judge he’s being treated worse than Bernard Madoff and asked that his bail be cut to $25 million. Rajaratnam, 52, requested in a letter yesterday that his $100 million bond be reduced. Bloomberg's Monica Bertran reports. (Source: Bloomberg)